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Message In a Flipbook: How Inmates Stay Connected to Family
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Where the "comic book font" came from
YouTube description: So...why does all the writing in comic books look like that? Vox's Phil Edwards looked into it and found an aesthetic shaped by comics culture, technology, and really cheap paper....
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MIT is reading through closed books with TeraHertz radiation
YouTube description: Spatial resolution, spectral contrast, and occlusion are three major bottlenecks in current imaging technologies for non-invasive inspection of complex samples such as closed...
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Engineering the Perfect Pop-Up Book
YouTube description: Using scissors, tape, and reams of creativity, Matthew Reinhart engineers paper to bend, fold, and transform into fantastic creatures, structures and locales. By adjusting the...
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Harry Potter and the translator's nightmare
YouTube description: Accio Harry Potter translations! Translating the Harry Potter books written by J.K. Rowling, in over 60 languages around the world, was not for the faint of heart or vocabulary....
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How a mathematician dissects a coincidence
YouTube description: Can you unknot a twist of fate with logic? Vox's Phil Edwards asked mathematician Joseph Mazur about his book, Fluke, and one of its most incredible stories. Find a link to the...
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Deciphering the Dark Secrets of Codex Seraphinianus
YouTube description: What's the weirdest book ever published? The "Codex Seraphinianus" could stake a claim. Philosophers have pondered its meaning and code-breakers have tried to decipher the text....
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The Hidden History of Korea's Printing Innovation
YouTube description: Seventy years before Johannes Gutenberg introduced modern moveable type to Europe in 1440, Korea had already printed the first book using moveable metal type. Today, Han-Soo Park...
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The Art Of Sci-Fi Book Covers
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What really happened to the Library of Alexandria?
YouTube description: View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-really-happened-to-the-library-of-alexandria-elizabeth-cox 2,300 years ago, the rulers of Alexandria set out to fulfill a very...
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